Doniphan County Kansas Hosted a five-candidate republican primary race for Sheriff.
Candidate Chad Clary came out on top with 610 votes. He was followed by Duston Hansen who took 575 votes. The other three candidates, Mark Allen, Gary Frump and Brandon Whestine, split 584 combined votes.
Clary, who has served as the under sheriff for current Sheriff Jerry Dubach, will face the democratic candidate who ran unopposed in his primary.
Jason Liechti will face Clary in November.
In Nodaway County Ron Wilson will face Bob Stiens for South District Commissioner, Bob Westfall ran unopposed and will run against David Smith in the general election.
Wilson received 1,052 votes while Westfall received 643 votes. Wilson will go on to face the democratic candidate David Smith, who ran unopposed.
The school bond proposed for the Jefferson C-123 school district failed 210 to 187. It needed to pass by a 4/7th approval. The tax would have been used to construct a new gym and remodeling to the school.
Incumbent Sheriff Darren White ran unopposed in the democratic primary and picked up 742 votes. He will face his former deputy Michael Galbraith. Galbraith ran unopposed in the republican primary and came away with 1,492 votes.
In the only two races to be decided in the primary in Atchison County, Alva Stoner beat-out three other candidates to win the primary race for the Commissioner of the Southern district in the republican primary.
On the democratic side, Richard Burke took 151 votes to beat Jack Vernon for the Southern District.
The democrat Burke will face the Republican Stoner in the November election.
Sheriff Denis Martin ran unopposed in the democratic primary. The incumbent faces no opposition in November.
Incumbent Buchanan County Sheriff Mike Strong cruised to an easy Democratic primary win over challenger Ron Fisher and will take on a retired Kansas City police officer in November. Mike rolled up 60 percent of the vote defeating Fisher 3551 to 2370.
Patrick Grove battled it out all night with veteran sheriff’s deputy Bill Puett, and when it was all over Grove won the Republican nomination for Sheriff by 52 votes out of nearly 7,000 cast. The final tally was Grove 3452, Puett 3400.
In the closely watched Sheriff’s primary race in Holt county, incumbent Scott Wedlock won with nearly 48 percent of the vote.
With three republicans and no democratic candidates, Wedlock will run unopposed in the November election to re-take his post.
Wedlock took 47.91 percent of the vote. Republican Candidate David Trauernicht came in second in the polls with 26.4 percent of the votes. And Kirby Felumb, a current Holt County Deputy, took 25.67 percent of the votes.
Also in Holt County, Bill Gordon took 76 percent of the vote for First District Commissioner on the Republican side. Michael Freeman had 23 percent of the vote. Gordon will be unopposed in the November election as there was no democratic candidate in the primary.
In the Second District Commissioner’s race, David Carroll took 65 percent of the vote, to beat out Don Holstine. Holstine took 34 percent of the votes. Carroll will run unopposed in November as no republican candidates ran for that office.
Voter turnout was roughly 39 percent in Holt County.
Saint Joseph City Councilmember PJ Kovac is a step closer to entering county government. Kovac defeated Robert Miller 1856 to 854 to win the Republican nomination for Western District Buchanan County Commissioner.
Kovac will take on Democratic incumbent Commissioner Ron Hook in the November election. Hook was unopposed in the primary.
Voters in Saint Joseph passed the proposed six year extension of the Capital Improvement Program sales tax by a margin of nearly 73 percent. The final unofficial tally, with 36 of 36 precincts reporting, was 8,044 yes votes to 3,015 no votes.
The vote means the half-cent sales tax will pay for $30-million in capital improvements over the next six years.
Family Fun Day at Chiefs training camp last weekend drew visitors to St Joe from all over, including one fellow who drove in from Jacksonville, Florida, two folks from Albuquerque and one from Cheyenne.
The Convention and Visitors Bureau compiled the list via FaceBook.
Mark Farthing from Jacksonville will get T-shirts from the bureau.
One fellow claimed to have come here from the moon. Officials say he’ll have to provide some sort of proof for that claim.
Here are the original Facebook posts:
Cassie Jones DeLong Leon, Iowa…and I come down and go to training camp and the special events every day I have off from work!!!!
Justin Knight Father, son, and grandson coming in from Wichita, KS.
Ashton Miller My cousins are coming in from Omaha. It’s their first time at camp and they are really excited!
Kim Hurley Quimby nebraska city, Ne
Teri Lynne Cline Lee’s Summit, MO! =)
Abe Alani overland park, ks
Brenda Holdren Topeka!
Ben Bowie Cheyenne, Wyoming
KC Chiefs Training Camp in St. Joseph, MO Well Wyoming Ben is winning so far…anyone further???
Adam Martin Sea of Tranquility, moon
Anber Daniels Noe Strafford, mo
KC Chiefs Training Camp in St. Joseph, MO You’re gonna have to prove that one Adam.
Angela Tummons Springfield, MO
CB Brandt Chuck Brandt teacher from Minnesota
Christine Overdick Hicks Pleasant Hill, MO
Mark C Farthing Jacksonville, Florida ready for some Chiefs. Drove in last night 1200 miles.
Michelle Jameson Bentonville AR
Mike Berry Here with my daughter from Moberly, MO
Katie Jo Peiker South Dakota
Jamey Kilker Marshalltown , Iowa
Kris Siemsen Bruhn Lincoln, NE
Cari Apodaca Promised my son if he raised his grades I would bring him here again. we came from Albuquerque,New Mexico.
KC Chiefs Training Camp in St. Joseph, MO Well I think Mark C Farthing has everyone beat. Inbox us here with your mailing address and shirt size for you and whoever else came with you and we’ll send ya a little somethin-somethin! Hope you all had a great visit!
House Speaker John Boehner said last week that the House is just too divided on the farm bill to approve the five-year farm bill approved by the House Agriculture Committee. He says the Democrats are concerned with food stamp reductions while Republicans don’t feel the cuts go far enough. As a result – Boehner hasn’t seen the 218 votes to pass a farm bill. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy has said it’s simply difficult to move any large bills in this Congress. But the Republican leadership in the House is hopeful constituents will put the pressure on lawmakers – demanding they do their job – and the goal is still to get a farm bill approved before the current measure expires on September 30th. McCarthy believes that will happen – stating the leadership will find a way to move the farm bill into conference when legislators return from the August recess.
Inmates at the Livingston County Jail will have to do without television for a while. That after someone in cell area six broke the locked electrical cover and damaged the socket, leaving obvious burns on the outlet.
Sheriff Steve Cox says inmates were warned last month that the budget for jail repairs was exhausted and the next damage to the electrical system would result in the loss of their TVs.
By noon Tuesday, the sheriff made good on that warning, removing all televisions from the jail. He says they are required to treat all detainees equally.
The detainees were advised of the problem and Cox says if they see additional damage to the jail the only area they have to spend money for needed repairs is from the jail food budget.
Cox says an investigation is underway into the identity of the suspect or suspects who damaged the socket. He says an electrician will take a look at the electrical outlets to make sure they are safe.
Cox says detainees have in the past forced items into electrical outlets to light contraband or dried vegetables to smoke. The Livingston County Jail is a 48-bed facility, and currently houses 43 detainees.
